The holidays started with a backpacking trip in the Sipsey Wilderness in northern Alabama. A group of friends & I headed up from south Louisiana, enjoying the chilly weather but escaping before the freezing rains set in on Saturday night. Check out the pretty moss & fungus covered log I found at lunch one day.
My birthday was the next weekend, along with the SEC championship game. What a wild weekend! LSU won, and a bunch of other teams lost, leaving us with a spot in the BCS title game! What a great birthday present! :) Of course, we played the title game last Monday and won, making my favorite Tigers the BCS National Champs. They were voted champs in all the polls, too. Quite an exciting football year!
After that, of course, was Christmas and all that goes along with it. Family & feasts, and then more family & more feasts. Culminating with my mom's surprise 70th birthday party on December 30th, 2007. With a New Year's Eve bash to follow. (Who could forget the fireball & subsequent power outage during the party?!?)
All in all, a safe & merry time. Just a few weeks of King Cake temptation left before beginning the Lenten period. Maybe this year I'll try a Zulu ... or a praline & cream cheese ... or ... or ... or ... hmmmmm, I just love King Cake.
